The saints daily exercise A treatise concerning the whole duty of prayer. Delivered in…The saints daily exercise A treatise concerning the whole dutie of prayer. Delivered in…

Another case of Conscience (in the business of prayer, is) wha• a ¹man is to do, when he is in strait of time; by reason of some weighty b•nesse, that requires a […] and sudden dispatch, and gives him not the leisure and liberty, that otherwise he might have had?

ANother case of Conscience (in the businesse of prayer, is) wha• a ¹man is to doe, when hee is in streight of time; by reason of som• w•ighty b•nesse, that requires a 〈…〉 and sudden dispatch, and giues him not the leisure and liberty, that otherwise he might haue had?

1. 1Case 6 About want of leisure to pray by reason of present businesses to be speedily dispatched.Case 6 About want of leisure to pray by reason of present businesses to bee speedily dispatched.

To this I answer, you shall find, that i• Scriptures, ¹the prayers of Saints have been sometimes larger, and sometimes shorter. Our Saviour Christ, you know, sometimes spent a whole ⟨p. 89⟩night in prayer; Surely he did not take so much time always, and, no doubt, we have liberty sometimes to be larger, sometimes shorter, according as our occasions will permit. But yet this you must remember, that though the business